You can make your every email more enticing. Add an image or logo to your signature, for example. Find out here how to add an image to your iPhone email signature with iOS Mail.
First, Drain Man Punches Meat
In a slaughterhouse, the drain man helps blood down the pipes and out of the slaughterhouse.
This, it turns out, is not the best spot in the house if you’re an aspiring boxer. Joe Frazier, an aspiring boxer and drain man during the early 1960s, used the wee hours of the morning to find a better one: right next to the refrigerated chunks of hanging meat, punching them.
Maybe you’ve seen this picture in a movie.
Maybe you want to add a, well, striking picture to your email signature? Punch the iPhone’s screen a few times, and there you go:
How to Add an Image to Your iPhone Email Signature (iOS Mail)
Time needed: 15 minutes
To add an image to your iPhone email signature in iOS Mail and create a pseudo-signature that includes a graphic or logo, for instance:
- Set up your iPhone email signature without the image.
- Make sure the image you want to use in the signature is accessible on your iPhone.
Here’s where: It can be just about anywhere: on the web, in an email, in the Photos app, …
Important: Do make sure the image is small enough to be used in an email signature. iOS Mail will not resize the image for you. - Copy the image.
3 Ways: For this, you can
– often tap and hold the image, then select Copy from the context menu or
– use the sharing button, then select Copy again or
– use Copy in the context menu that appears when you highlight the image.
- Start a new message in iOS Mail.
- Now tap where you want to insert the iPhone email signature image.
- Select Paste from the context menu that has appeared.
- Enter your own email address under To:.
- Now tap Send.
Tip: iPhone Mail will complain about the email’s Subject being empty; tap Send.
- In your iOS Mail Inbox, delete the email you just received from yourself.
Also any email: How to Attach a Picture to an Email on an iPhone
Send an Email Using the Signature with Image
Now, to start a new message using the signature including an image:
- Open the Sent folder in iOS Mail.
- Now open the message you sent yourself.
Flag: To make the email with the signature image easy to find forever, flag it and filter the Sent folder for flagged messages.
- Tap the Reply button.
- Select Send Again from the context menu that has appeared.
- Compose and send the email with its image-enriched signature.
Replies: To use the signature in a reply or when forwarding, you can keep a composition window with the signature open and copy and paste the signature (including its image) when needed.
How to Add an Image to Your iPhone Email Signature: FAQ
Will Mail send my signature image as an attachment?
Yes.
iOS Mail will include the graphic with every email you send as an attachment. It is not necessary for recipients to allow downloading images, but it is even more important that the image not be too large.
Can I add an image directly to the signature in Settings?
No, not really.
You can paste any image into your signature, and it will appear there at first—often even in emails you compose.
For the image to be sent along with the message, you will usually have to insert it again into the message. Otherwise, a blank placeholder will appear where the signature image should be.
(How to add an iPhone email signature image using iOS Mail tested with iOS 14–17; first published November 2018, last updated April 2024)